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Detecting out-of-domain (OOD) intents from user queries is essential for a task-oriented dialogue system. Previous OOD detection studies generally work on the assumption that plenty of labeled IND intents exist. In this paper, we focus on a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Pei Wang , Keqing He , Yutao Mou , Xiaoshuai Song , Yanan Wu , Jingang Wang , Yunsen Xian , Xunliang Cai , Weiran Xu

Accurately predicting the intent of customer support requests is vital for efficient support systems, enabling agents to quickly understand messages and prioritize responses accordingly. While different approaches exist for intent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Nichal Narotamo , David Aparicio , Tiago Mesquita , Mariana Almeida

This paper studies the problem of information retrieval, to adapt to unseen tasks. Existing work generates synthetic queries from domain-specific documents to jointly train the retriever. However, the conventional query generator assumes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Yoonsang Lee , Minsoo Kim , Seung-won Hwang

In this paper, we investigate few-shot joint learning for dialogue language understanding. Most existing few-shot models learn a single task each time with only a few examples. However, dialogue language understanding contains two closely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Yutai Hou , Yongkui Lai , Cheng Chen , Wanxiang Che , Ting Liu

Intention recognition is an important step to facilitate collaboration among multiple agents. Existing work mainly focuses on intention recognition in a single-agent setting and uses a descriptive model, e.g. Bayesian networks, in the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Zhang Zhang , Yifeng Zeng , Yinghui Pan

Training a neural network model that can quickly adapt to a new task is highly desirable yet challenging for few-shot learning problems. Recent few-shot learning methods mostly concentrate on developing various meta-learning strategies from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Zihang Jiang , Bingyi Kang , Kuangqi Zhou , Jiashi Feng

In this paper, we formulate a more realistic and difficult problem setup for the intent detection task in natural language understanding, namely Generalized Few-Shot Intent Detection (GFSID). GFSID aims to discriminate a joint label space…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Congying Xia , Chenwei Zhang , Hoang Nguyen , Jiawei Zhang , Philip Yu

Intent identification serves as the foundation for generating appropriate responses in personalized question answering (PQA). However, existing benchmarks evaluate only response quality or retrieval performance without directly measuring…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Jieyong Kim , Maryam Amirizaniani , Soojin Yoon , Dongha Lee

In exploratory search, users often submit vague queries to investigate unfamiliar topics, but receive limited feedback about how the search engine understood their input. This leads to a self-reinforcing cycle of mismatched results and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Yumeng Wang , Xiuying Chen , Suzan Verberne

Accurate intent classification is critical for efficient routing in customer service, ensuring customers are connected with the most suitable agents while reducing handling times and operational costs. However, as companies expand their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ziji Zhang , Michael Yang , Zhiyu Chen , Yingying Zhuang , Shu-Ting Pi , Qun Liu , Rajashekar Maragoud , Vy Nguyen , Anurag Beniwal

Systems like Voice-command based conversational agents are characterized by a pre-defined set of skills or intents to perform user specified tasks. In the course of time, newer intents may emerge requiring retraining. However, the newer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Ankan Mullick , Sukannya Purkayastha , Pawan Goyal , Niloy Ganguly

We present Conformal Intent Classification and Clarification (CICC), a framework for fast and accurate intent classification for task-oriented dialogue systems. The framework turns heuristic uncertainty scores of any intent classifier into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Floris den Hengst , Ralf Wolter , Patrick Altmeyer , Arda Kaygan

Chat interfaces for intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) enable interactivity and flexibility. However, when students interact with chat interfaces, they expect dialogue-driven navigation from the system and can express frustration and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Ella Cutler , Zachary Levonian , S. Thomas Christie

We present a systematic study on multilingual and cross-lingual intent detection from spoken data. The study leverages a new resource put forth in this work, termed MInDS-14, a first training and evaluation resource for the intent detection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Daniela Gerz , Pei-Hao Su , Razvan Kusztos , Avishek Mondal , Michał Lis , Eshan Singhal , Nikola Mrkšić , Tsung-Hsien Wen , Ivan Vulić

The semantic understanding of natural dialogues composes of several parts. Some of them, like intent classification and entity detection, have a crucial role in deciding the next steps in handling user input. Handling each task as an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Petr Lorenc

Intent recognition is critical for task-oriented dialogue systems. However, for emerging domains and new services, it is difficult to accurately identify the key intent of a conversation due to time-consuming data annotation and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Caiyuan Chu , Ya Li , Yifan Liu , Jia-Chen Gu , Quan Liu , Yongxin Ge , Guoping Hu

Identifying user intents from natural language utterances is a crucial step in conversational systems that has been extensively studied as a supervised classification problem. However, in practice, new intents emerge after deploying an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-08 A. B. Siddique , Fuad Jamour , Luxun Xu , Vagelis Hristidis

To increase the computational efficiency of interest-point based object retrieval, researchers have put remarkable research efforts into improving the efficiency of kNN-based feature matching, pursuing to match thousands of features against…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-19 Johannes Niedermayer , Peer Kröger

Few-shot semantic segmentation aims to segment the target objects in query under the condition of a few annotated support images. Most previous works strive to mine more effective category information from the support to match with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Yuanwei Liu , Nian Liu , Xiwen Yao , Junwei Han

Query understanding is a fundamental problem in information retrieval (IR), which has attracted continuous attention through the past decades. Many different tasks have been proposed for understanding users' search queries, e.g., query…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Ruqing Zhang , Jiafeng Guo , Yixing Fan , Yanyan Lan , Xueqi Cheng